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http://www.scratchjr.org
Added:24 Jul 2015
Contributor: Lorna Carberry
Resource type: Game, App/Software
ScratchJr is for young children (ages 5-7) who can program their own interactive stories and games. In the process, they learn to solve problems, design projects, and express themselves creatively on the computer.
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English1-2
How it maps to the curriculum
- 1-2
- English
Strand: Useful Websites
Suggestions for use: Children snap together graphical programming blocks to make characters move, jump, dance, and sing. Children can modify characters in the paint editor, add their own voices and sounds, even insert photos of themselves -- then use the programming blocks to make their characters come to life.
http://www.primaryschoolict.weebly.com
Added:24 Jul 2015
Contributor: Anne Conneely
Resource type: Game
games, sight words
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English1-2
How it maps to the curriculum
- 1-2
- English
Suggestions for use: learning and using sight words
https://www.scoilnet.ie/uploads/resources/14859/14498.docx
Added:24 Jul 2015
Contributor: Sarah Sheehan
Resource type: Lesson Plan
An oral language lesson based on the App Rory's Story Cubes.
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English3-4
How it maps to the curriculum
- 3-4
- English
Strand: Oral Language
Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:
This resource should enable a child to:
- create and tell stories to the class or group, and retell them after questioning, comparing the versions
- express feelings and attitudes through improvisational drama
Suggestions for use: This activity could be used as a warm up or as an entire oral language lesson. There are also extension activities included for differentiation.
https://www.google.ie/?gws_rd=ssl#q=starfall
Added:22 Jul 2015
Contributor: eileen kenny
Resource type: Other
Starfall is a children's website that teaches basic English reading and writing skills.
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Englishin
How it maps to the curriculum
- in
- English
Suggestions for use: Reading Games and paired Reading ,phonics practice and consolidation, Confidence boosting
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/expressive-builder/id405801365?mt=8
Added:23 Jul 2015
Contributor: Bennet Kirwan
Resource type: Assessment, Audio / Video, Simulation, App/Software
The objectives of this app are: to improve sentence ideation, to improve senttence formation and to improve receptive and expressive language. The app uses photos as a stimulus to encourage children to make up a sentence, that can be recorded and played back to them. The app also provides the children with three differentiated levels of clues to further assist the children.
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English1-23-4
How it maps to the curriculum
Strand: Oral Language
Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:
This resource should enable a child to:
- engage in real and imaginary situations to perform different social functions
- experiment with more elaborate vocabulary and sentence structure in order to extend and explore meaning
- experiment with word order and examine its implications for meaning and clarity
- focus on the subject under discussion and sustain a conversation on it
- initiate discussions, respond to the initiatives of others, and have practice in taking turns
- talk about and reflect on past and present experiences, and plan, predict, anticipate and speculate about future and imaginary experiences
Suggestions for use: This app works excellently independently during discrete Oral Language or Speech and Language lessons and also as a springboard for other lessons/topics.
Strand: Oral Language
Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:
This resource should enable a child to:
- become aware of new words and new connotations of words through his/her reading and writing experience
- become familiar with the functions of words without necessarily using technical grammatical terms
- discuss the meanings and origins of words, phrases and expressions with the teacher
- give and take turns in speaking and experience a classroom environment in which tolerance for the views of others is fostered
- hear, discuss and react to local storytellers
- initiate conversations and respond to the initiatives of others in talking about experiences and activities
- make lists of local expressions and words
- play synonym and antonym games
- practise the common social functions in the everyday context of class and school and through improvisational drama
Suggestions for use: This app works excellently independently during discrete Oral Language or Speech and Language lessons and also as a springboard for other lessons/topics.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/spelling-magic-3/id446294881?mt=8
Added:22 Jul 2015
Contributor: Louise Brady
Resource type:
Allows children to practise spelling 4-7 letter words
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English1-2
How it maps to the curriculum
- 1-2
- English
Strand: Useful Websites
Suggestions for use: Station teaching activity, homework activity, early finisher activity
https://itunes.apple.com/ie/app/kin...s-ebooks-magazines/id302584613?mt=8
Added:23 Jul 2015
Contributor: Majella Hilliard
Resource type: App/Software
Get a book once ,read and share on any device
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English5-6
How it maps to the curriculum
- 5-6
- English
Strand: Reading
Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:
This resource should enable a child to:
- engage with books in group or in whole-class settings
- learn about the structure and appreciate the function of the component parts of a newspaper
- read to satisfy personal interests
- read widely as an independent reader from a more challenging range of reading material, including stories, poems, myths, legends, novels and non-fiction texts appropriate to his/her age and reading ability
Suggestions for use: Download books /magazines onto a device and read on any number of devices using Kindle app.
Ideal for individual reading time or could be used in pairs .
Useful for homework when students use their own tablets
http://www.ickypen.co.uk
Added:23 Jul 2015
Contributor: Lorraine Gill
Resource type: App/Software
Interactive story app for kids
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Englishin
How it maps to the curriculum
- in
- English
Strand: Reading
Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:
This resource should enable a child to:
- associate print with enjoyment through listening to stories and poems read aloud
- perceive reading as a shared, enjoyable experience
- pursue and develop individual interests through engagement with books
- respond to characters, situations and story details, relating them to personal experience
http://www.mrthorne.com/?s=geraldine
Added:23 Jul 2015
Contributor: Sarah Dromey
Resource type: Demonstration, Audio / Video, Presentation, Role Play, Primary Source
Geraldine the Giraffe learns all the sounds of the alphabet which helps her on the path to reading.
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Englishin
How it maps to the curriculum
- in
- English
Strand: Useful Websites
Suggestions for use: Reinforcing the teaching of phonics in a fun and interactive way
https://itunes.apple.com/ie/app/too...tastic-jr.-pirates/id579933458?mt=8
Added:23 Jul 2015
Contributor: Mona Fox
Resource type:
Create a Story
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English1-2
How it maps to the curriculum
- 1-2
- English
Strand: Writing
Strand unit: Developing Cognitive Ability through Language
Suggestions for use: Children create their own narrative stories
